BONUS: Need a Break? Take a Stretch
Chasing Life
CNN
4.5 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As a bonus, we ask trainer Jeanette Jenkins to take us through a few back and breathing exercises that could be good to do when you've been sitting too long. |
| 0:09.0 | These movements are low impact, they don't require any special equipment, and they can be done just about anywhere. |
| 0:15.0 | Most importantly, they can be done in between Zoom meetings, nap time, break time, whatever. Here's Jeanette. |
| 0:24.0 | Okay guys, it's your girl, Hollywood trainer Jeanette Jenkins, and I am going to talk you through five amazing stretches to help you relieve lower back pain. |
| 0:34.0 | So if you're sitting right now, I want you to go ahead and stand up out of your chair. Yes, you can do this. |
| 0:42.0 | Now take your hands on your hips and separate your feet and hip distance apart. All I want you to do is start making circles with your hips. |
| 0:50.0 | Nice big hip circles. Oh yeah, you feel those hips. Talk to them, say, I love you, and I'm going to help you out. I know I've been neglecting you, and I know you're tight, but we're going to make it through. |
| 1:04.0 | Now circle the other direction. Good. So just give me four or five big circles and just feel what's happening in those hips. They're probably pretty tight. |
| 1:18.0 | Okay, now we're going to do what's called a side bend. I want you to bring your feet all the way together. Your thighs are connected. |
| 1:26.0 | Now give me a nice deep breath. Inhale. Exhale. Now on your next inhale, I want you to circle your arms up overhead and interlace your fingers overhead. |
| 1:39.0 | So inhale, big circle overhead. Interlace the fingers and then reach your fingertips towards the sky. |
| 1:47.0 | So place your two index fingers together so you're making a point with your two index fingers and reach them up to the sky. |
| 1:56.0 | The rest of the fingers are interlaced so that you're creating tension through the body, through the sides of your torso. |
| 2:04.0 | And as you're reaching towards the sky, you're feeling that pull through your torso, through the sides, and it's coming all the way from the hips. |
| 2:14.0 | Now pull your navel towards your spine, engage your abs. Give me another deep breath. Inhale, reach up. |
| 2:21.0 | And now exhale, fold over to your right side. And as you fold over to your right side, I want you to feel the left side stretching. |
| 2:30.0 | Feel that stretching that's happening along the right side of your body. |
| 2:35.0 | Give me two deep breaths here. |
| 2:39.0 | Now bring it back to center. So reach those arms straight back up. Inhale, reach up to the sky. |
| 2:49.0 | Exhale and fold over to your left side. And as you fold to the left side, feel the lengthening that's happening on the right side body. |
| 2:58.0 | Oh, feels so good, doesn't it? Give me two more deep breaths here. |
| 3:05.0 | Excellent. Now release those arms. Take your feet shoulder with the part. Place your hands on the tops of your thighs. |
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